Sat.Mar 26, 2016 - Fri.Apr 01, 2016

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Quality Assurance: Fine-Tuning Your eLearning to Be Its Best

Association eLearning

Chapter 1: The Basics. Quality assurance, or QA as it is better known, is a vastly important yet surprisingly underappreciated aspect of eLearning. Most course creators and teams do a fine job of working out the errors, called “bugs,” prior to delivery. But what good is a course if the learner can’t access it properly or the assessment doesn’t score correctly?

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What Will eLearning Look Like in the Year 2066?

eLearning Brothers

I grew up watching re-runs of a popular cartoon called The Jetsons. If you haven’t watched ever watched it, you should check out an episode. But for now, let it suffice to say the original 1960s storyline is about a family of four (the Jetsons) that lives “in a futuristic utopia of elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions.”.

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7 Tips for Writing Effective Scenario-Based Learning

Infopro Learning

Simply telling a child ‘not to lie’ does not work the same as telling them the story of George Washington and the cherry tree. Children can relate to George and his mistake, and see firsthand from the story the reward of telling the truth. When faced with a similar situation in their own life, the scenario guides children to tell the truth and not to lie.

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Make Your eLearning Personal

B Online Learning

The way in which an eLearning course is written (including the script for the narration) can sometimes be the source of debate between developers and SME’s/clients. Opinions are often divided when asked if it is better to write in a formal rather than conversational style. But what does the research say? What’s better for learning? […].

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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What Can Keep And Hold A Millennial In Your Organization? Learning and Development

Association eLearning

Baby Boomers instilled the tradition of keeping one’s head down, staying with “the Company” for 20+ years, and collecting a gold watch at the end of their career. But Millennials anticipate collecting many watches much, much earlier. Forbes reports that “91% of Millennials only expect to maintain their current job for 3 years or less,” as they move on to opportunities that accelerate their career advancement.

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LMSs Lower Costs for Nonprofits

TOPYX LMS

Contrary to popular myth, social media is not free. This is particularly true when it is used for the purpose of marketing a product or service. Many entities suffer from the financial burden of social media, but none more so than nonprofit organizations. How Much Social Media Marketing Costs for Nonprofits? It’s becoming increasingly rare for nonprofits to not be on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

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Future of Video in Corporate Training

Upside Learning

Videos have always held a great deal of attraction. The fact that a well presented/designed video tends to capture immediate and prolonged attention is well documented. Videos have always been effective mediums of telling stories and also used as multi-device solutions, and short videos for performance support. The reason is simple, a picture is worth […].

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Build a stronger team, faster: Best practices in employee onboarding

Docebo

Build a stronger team, faster: Best practices in employee onboarding Most rapid-growth technology companies have simply neglected to implement an efficient strategy for onboarding new hires , despite the obvious need. A new publication from Docebo explores why most companies don’t have an onboarding strategy , and outlines some critical first steps toward building a solid plan that incorporates a versatile learning managment system (LMS) to support experiential learning.

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5 Reasons I’m Geeky about Learning Design!

Learning Rebels

My name is Shannon and I am geeky about Learning Design. . There I said it. Not only is L&D my chosen field, but it’s my passion. It’s a disease. I look at websites and I’m either wow’d by the user experience or I’m curious about how it could be tweaked for learning in the workplace. I’m forever looking at job aids posted on walls (the ones at Subway are particularly interesting).

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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3 Ways to Help Your Employees Love Using an LMS

TOPYX LMS

Do your employees love using your company’s social learning management system (LMS) of choice? You’d know if they did. When employees truly enjoy interacting with an LMS, the following things happen within an organization: A collaborative learning culture is effortlessly created – An eLearning system facilitates employee collaboration by providing workers with resources like realtime chat, video conferencing, access to social media for professional purposes, and social learning tools.

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Making Money with Moodle - The Business Case for Online Learning

Lambda Solutions

Did you know you can use the Moodle learning management system to make money? Universities, private colleges, technical institutes and all kinds of private online learning providers can offer courses commit a lot of time, effort, and money into developing their online learning programs, increasing the amount of pressure on learning departments to turn a profit.

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6 Gamification Benefits You Should Know

LearnDash

Many elearning programs benefit from having some form of gamification incorporated into their courses. There are some offerings out there that do this extremely well as it keeps learners engaged and coming “back for more” The truth is that there are many benefits to using gamification in your elearning courses, and the even better news is that it’s not very complicated to implement simple gamification elements like points and scoring.

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The 70:20:10 Lens

Learnnovators

In 70:20:10 for trainers I advocated the use of the 70:20:10 model by L&D professionals as a lens through which to view their instructional design. The excellent comments on my post, and insightful blog posts by others – notably Mark Britz , Clark Quinn and Arun Pradhan – have prompted me to think deeper about my premise. I continue to reject the notion that 70:20:10 is a formula or a goal, because it is not a model of what “should be”.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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TechSmith Camtasia: Cursor Effects

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel.   If you attend my introduction to TechSmith Camtasia mini course , you learn how to use the Camtasia Recorder tool to create a software demonstration pretty early. During the recording process you will, of course, capture every click you make with your mouse. Later, in the Studio, you can elect to hide the mouse completely, or add some nifty cursor effects that can enhance the learner experience.    To add Cursor Effects, record a video using the Recorder and

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3 Signs Your Training Department is Instructional Design Deficient

eLearning Brothers

Have you ever worked on an eLearning program only to discover your hard work was in vain? The powers that be handed you content and told you to get to work. Being the proactive eLearning developer that you are, you dove into the deep end with the bloodthirsty sharks, head first. You immediately started developing an eLearning course–writing storyboards, creating graphics, testing navigation, programming buttons, configuring quizzes, the whole nine yards.

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Learning Solutions 2016 Highlights

Raptivity

The Learning Solutions conference achieved another benchmark as a successful event this year. It was held in Orlando, Florida, from March 16 – 18 and the Raptivity team was excited to exhibit some of the latest happenings in the product. The place was abuzz with eLearning industry peers who had come together to share best practices and learn from each other.

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Socially Acceptable

Clark Quinn

I was talking with my ITA colleagues, and we were discussing the state of awareness of social learning. And we were somewhat concerned that at least from some evidence, there’re some misconceptions around about social learning. So I thought I’d take another shot at it. First, let me make the case why it’s important. There are number of reasons to be interested in social learning: it’s more natural : our learning mechanisms were social before they were formal. it’s

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.

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How to develop effective employee training programs for global media teams

Docebo

How to develop effective employee training programs for global media and publishing teams When I decided to conduct a mini-experiment with my Docebo colleagues as the subjects, I basically knew what I was getting into. I sent out a simple request via the global Slack channel: “ Find an image, any image, that depicts the concept of teamwork, and email it to me, ” was my plea to my coworkers in Italy, the U.S. and Dubai.

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Employee training myths you could be “April fooling” yourself about

Axonify

Truth? Or Myth? Depends on which decade you’re operating in. Not long ago, these statements might have been true, but not any longer. To be sure you’re not April fooling yourself, we invite you to review these statements and see why they should be relegated to the myth category. Myth 1: Our LMS is all we need. Debunked: Over the past decade, many organizations have invested in a learning management system.

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Performance Support: Gimme Three Clicks!

Living in Learning

Critical demands for ensuring workforce agility and resilience manifest beyond the current scope of the best training programs; the best training design, best development and delivery practices that many L&D organizations rely upon as standard methodology. For a workforce to consistently function at optimal agility and resiliency, we must evolve beyond the current linear paradigm that is only scoped to transfer knowledge and skills through training no matter how compelling and engaging we tr

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The best of March 2016 – in pictures

Jane Hart

Here are 6 of my favourite blog posts/articles from March 2016 – summarised in an image. 1 – Dear Training, We’re sorry, but it’s over – Arun Pradhan, Learnnovators, 2 March. 2 – Learning – to what end? – Bryan M Mathers, Visual Thinkery. 3 – Content dumping: how to poison your learning strategy – Nick Shackleton Jones, LinkedIn, 15 March 2016. 4 – social learning for complex work – Harold Jarche, 20 March. 5 – Driver caugh

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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7 Tips to Choose the Right Color Scheme for Your Online Training Course

Allen Interactions

By Guest Blogger Christopher Pappas / @cpappas. Color has the ability to inspire, calm, and excite our corporate learners. On the other hand, it also has the capacity to evoke anger, confusion, and a plethora of other negative emotions that can hinder the online training process. In this article, I'll share 7 tips to help you choose the ideal color scheme for your online training courses.

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LMS Guide for Millennial Employees

Wisetail

How to engage Millennial employees in your LMS - written from the perspective of a Millennial. The post LMS Guide for Millennial Employees appeared first on Wisetail.

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Performance Support: Just Gimme Three Clicks!

Living in Learning

Critical demands for ensuring workforce agility and resilience manifest beyond the current scope of the best training programs; the best training design, best development and delivery practices that many L&D organizations rely upon as standard methodology. For a workforce to consistently function at optimal agility and resiliency, we must evolve beyond the current linear paradigm that is only scoped to transfer knowledge and skills through training no matter how compelling and engaging we tr

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Will eLearning Make Your Training Team Redundant?

eLearning Architect

I was recently talking with a training manager who is putting together a proposal for an eLearning program within his organisation. One challenge is dealing his L&D team who are sceptical of eLearning due to concerns over their job security. In this article we'll explore whether trainers should be worried about their roles becoming redundant. The fear It’s a fact of life – advances in technology are starting to replace jobs traditionally fulfilled by people.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.